NBC: Coats Told House Intel Committee Trump Is Obsessed With Russia Probe

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JUNE 23, 2017 8:08 AM

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told investigators with the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday that President Donald Trump seemed obsessed with the Russia probe and asked Coats several times to publicly deny that there was evidence of collusion, NBC News reported Thursday evening, citing an unnamed U.S. official.

Coats and Adm. Mike Rogers, the National Security Agency director, told special counsel Robert Mueller and Senate investigators last week that Trump suggested that they publicly deny that there was evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, according to a CNN report.

During a public hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee, both Coats and Rogers declined to discuss their conversations with Trump. Rogers said at the time that he had not been “directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate.” Coats told the Senate committee that he “never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in relationship to an ongoing investigation.”

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[DK504]

1. His idiotic arrogance of this Dolt and his tweets led to another investigation.

And these bottom feeding parasites back this traitor all the way in to special investigtions on their collusion.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. So am guessing this was a "closed hearing"

because none of the articles I have dug up so far seem to clarify that?

The reporter's tweet is here with video clip -

Link to tweet

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Ken Dilanian?Verified account @KenDilanianNBC

My reporting on DNI Coats telling House investigators today that Trump seemed obsessed with the Russia probe.
MSNBC
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4:38 PM - 22 Jun 2017

This could also be why all the "buggy" behavior out of Drumpf yesterday along with all the other stuff going on too.

[jimmil]

3. So if Coats and Rogers said two different things in open and closed meetings...

Doesn't that mean they have perjured themselves at least once?

[mr_lebowski]

5. You're missing the carefully selected (i.e. by lawyers) weasel words ...

Like 'directed' and 'believed' and 'interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way'.

None of those directly preclude 'being, uh ... 'politely asked' ... to publicly deny'.

[Bayard]

6. Sounds like it

Rump is obsessed with the investigation because he's in a panic. He knows Mueller is going to nail him.

[Phoenix61]

7. They choose their words very, very carefully

in the open hearing. They never directly answered if Twitler asked them to say or do anything. They stuck with not directed and not pressured.

[MFM008]

4. Hubris

May yet be his undoing.

[forgotmylogin]

8. "Out! Out Damned Spot!"

"No, not you, Spicey, get back here."

Lady MacTrump gave King Putin the knife to eviscerate America, and how haz guilt.

No wait, I'm sorry. Not guilt, just that four-year-old impulse when they steal all the cookies and can't eat them all, so they've got to hide them *somewhere* and needs to reassure himself, "Mommy, you haven't looked under the couch today, have you? No, no reason."

[dawnie51]

9. With Coats,in the open hearing...

it was obvious that he had been approached by Dolt, and that he was struggling to say it. All that "I'm not comfortable" and "I have no legal basis to not reply" crap. It was a given that in a closed setting he was going to tell them the truth, and apparently he did. He just didn't want to be seen doing it. As for Rogers, he came off very aggressively in the open hearing, almost combative, but again, in closed session, he admitted that Dolt pressured him several times to cover his ass. And these are just two that we have had leaked to the public. God knows how many people have been hit on by Dolt or his minions, and who have told the investigation of the details.